He gassed and bombed his own people in the Kurds. Killing hundreds of thousands of them. During the Iran-Iraq war between 1980-88 Saddam used brutal measures which were against the Geneva convention. He tortured opposing soldiers and he even tortured the Iraqi national soccer team when they were not achieving desired results.
http://officersclub.blogspot.com/2007/03/why-george-bush-was-right-to-invade.html
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAmarshallP.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan
Saddam Hussein had cancelled numerous planned weapons inspections by the United Nations installing fear in the USA that he had them. Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator who massacred nearly a million of his own citizens. He told his country he was a direct descendant of Mohammed. Saddam Hussein was a crazy and brutal dictator.
He gassed and bombed his own people in the Kurds. Killing hundreds of thousands of them. During the Iran-Iraq war between 1980-88 Saddam used brutal measures which were against the Geneva convention. He tortured opposing soldiers and he even tortured the Iraqi national soccer team when they were not achieving desired results.